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[…] women’s long-standing and continuing prominence within the field of costume design, and its common designation as a feminine specialism ‘considered […]

Norman Swallow  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Richard Levin, head of television design for the BBC interview on normal swallow, recorded on the third of September 1991. side one okay. First of all, when and where were you born?Richard Levin &n[…]

[…] and for Technicolor. He discusses the role of the costume design er and wardrobe supervisor – the demands of working […]

[…]5  why did you think of going to the BBC and why did you think of being there? You know, possibly visual way you think of being a visual effects designer at that point.Speaker 2  5:05  The working of the BBC actually came by chance. I only found out later because when you're a school,[…]

[…] : Well I always liked drawing and looking at paintings and that sort of thing. And then, from then on, I gradually became very interested in costume design. I used to go to the ballet a lot, for instance - you know, in the old days, at Covent Garden, when the remains of the Russian Ballet came over[…]

[…] to do and had to still study for many years, I decided to turn on something so friend of mine, who was connected with Roger scissors, one of the top designers at the Ufa studios, and by being a great friend of Fritz Lang, he showed my paintings, and he was very impressed with that. So he said to me[…]

[…]to Elaine yesterday, she was talking about Sam Robson and, do you know, I'll tell you this as a wee anecdote - as I say, I was the first woman in the Design Department, I was twenty-two, I had long, blonde hair and I used to wear worry beads on my ankle, you know, so I was that kind of hippy, art st[…]

[…]his life was saved, presumably.And then I went to art school and eventually I spend a year in art school. And then I wentto Harrods in their Interior Design department, they used to run a department, which wasbasically there for restoring old houses and putting them back, and decoration of any sort,[…]

[…] School of Art she worked at the BBC as a design assistant on a number of children’s programmes, dramas and […]